Organizing anarchy: The food security–biodiversity–climate crisis and the genesis of rural land use planning in the developing world

摘要: Shortfalls in global food production, coupled with the growing visibility of climate change's disruptive effects, have underlined for many observers importance devoting rural lands to their 'optimal' use, where they can make maximal contributions imperatives feeding human population and maintaining vital environmental services. In this context endorsed land use planning as a way insure that, at least theory, get devoted best uses. practice, developing world has resembled 'organized anarchy'. Small landholders insecure tenure, overseas investors seeking large deals, NGOs representing indigenous peoples, government officials, staff from international multilateral organizations come together strategic action fields struggle over sometimes negotiate plans contested landscapes. These represent strategic, spatially explicit response change-biodiversity-food security crisis. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.